Division 18 at Gilmore Community School
Today we did a gingerbread guided drawing activity. Students followed the step-by-step instructions and carefully outlined their drawing with a sharpie. They added their own details and decorations. Then, students used their own set of watercolour paint and with a small brish, carefully painted their gingerbread houses. They look so colourful and unique!
Today, Alpha leadership came to another visit. This time, the big buddies planned a holiday card making activity to give to the Burnaby Neighborhood House.
It was a very hands on activity, good thing we had so many extra helpers!!
This week go counting collections students had the choice to skip count by 2’s or by 10’s. Many students wanted to challenge themselves and count bags with more than 50 items! They did a great job skip counting, some past 100!
What a fun day!
We started with a wet walk for the Jingle Bell walk. It was amazing to see what our community can do. The gym was so busy and the community room was full of donations!
Our class did their part in collecting items and bringing it back to school and after that warmed up with some hot chocolate and cookies.
In the afternoon, we had so much fun skating! It was the first time on the ice for some students and they had a great attitude trying something new! Everyone had fun and many want to go skating again!
Here are some pictures from today:
Today, some Alpha Secondary students came to our class as part of their “walk and lead” leadership program.
They planned and lead a STEM activity and students created “Mr. Motion” out of paper. They played Simon Says with Mr. Motion and then did buddy reading with the big buddies.
It was so fun to have so many extra guests in our class! Leadership will be coming back to do a Science activity with us on January 7th.
Here are some pictures from today.
Our class had a great time today during our Science workshop. Students did a season sort, learned about thermometers and did temperature checks, made fake snow, and a storm in a jar.
We read another Todd Parr book, “The Peace Book” to start a conversation about what is peaceful to you as we approach Remembrance Day. Students’ illustrations were shared at the assembly and some shared their ideas.
Below are the responses and beautiful illustrations from our class in the style of Todd Parr.
It was a fun and busy day at school today!
Thank you to all parents who came to cheer at the parade outdoors and who contributed to the items for the class party! Everyone had a great time!!
You might wonder what happens during literacy stations. We do them 3 times a week and it usually starts with a phonics lesson at the carpet. Then students go off to do different activities.
Kindergarten students right now are working on the letters of the alphabet (both upper and lower case) through a variety of hands on games and on fine motor skills such as making straight and curvy lines and printing upper and lower case letters.
Grade 1 students are working on their spelling packages that have a variety of activities with 5 sight words. When finished with those, they can play different hands on games that reinforce the sight words as well as games with a focus on phonics.
Below are some pictures of some of the activities students work on during literacy stations.
We have been talking about different types of weather in Science. We talked about what clues we see in the sky and around us that helps us know what the weather is like that day.
After listening to a song about the weather and seeing non-fiction images about each type of weather, students drew what they learned about it. We have some pretty amazing artists and here are some samples of today’s work.
